Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

Anthropic said Thursday it disrupted industrial-scale distillation attacks against its Claude AI model from seven China-based labs, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai, and MiniMax. These attacks involved large-scale extracting of model capabilities, though distillation itself is a legitimate training method commonly used in machine learning.